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...there is no duck, is a duck thus strikingly exploited? Who is the duck's creator? A press agent is the gentleman who keeps The Stupidities before the public. It is his business to ferret out facts about the company, fashion them into entertaining if reading, hawk them among the dramatic editors. When the facts run dry he "plants" a story. His steadfast purpose is to keep The Stupidities in the headlines. If he is successful, the patient public parts with the aforesaid $4.40 and the production thus makes money. Though the duck incident herein outlined may seem farfetched...
...Significance. Though announced as a new novel and with no mention of the previous copyright, The Sea-Hawk is really a reprint of one of Sabatini's first novels. For that very reason, however, it is much better than his later and more successful but less brilliantly written romances. Both in style and color The Sea-Hawk continues the best traditions of the historical romance written frankly for pleasure and excitement. Sabatini is not at all "the modern Dumas" as some critics insist on calling him. He doesn't write in the grand manner of the great Frenchman...
...Critics. Most of the critics have not noticed that The Sea-Hawk is a reprint; but almost all have accorded it the favor due an engaging romance. The New York Tribune speaks of the "gorgeous plot"; the Boston Herald names it " a colorful and dramatic tale "; the Boston Transcript praises it highly as " a marvel of its kind...
...Born of Italian and English parentage in Italy, Mr. Sabatini knows many languages, but has elected to write in English and make his home in England. The recent popularity of Scaramouche and Captain Blood (1922) has caused the reprint of earlier novels such as The Snare and The Sea-Hawk...
...HAWK-Rafael Sabattml- Houghton, Mifttn...